Ongoing
Badlands
Meet the new generation of filmmakers
1 September 2021 — 31 December 2022
still from Marlon Brando (Vincent Tilanus, NL 2020)
Who will determine the future’s cinematic landscape? Which stories will be told and how?
Up-and-coming film talent at Eye: a new generation of Dutch makers are given the opportunity to present their debut films, discuss filmmaking and select films by makers that inspired them. These Badlands evenings are compiled by guest curators Lemuël de Graav, Xiang Yu Yeung and Eye programmer Ronald Simons.
still from Suzy Q (Martin Koolhoven, NL 1999)
still from Mid90s (Jonah Hill, US 2018)
Eye celebrates Dutch cinema’s future with a selection of talented up-and-coming filmmakers who work in various disciplines and have diverse backgrounds. What unites them is their individuality and unique artistic ideas on cinema as an art form, in short: as yet untold stories.
© Wouter Sessink (director/editor), Betonkust (original score)
still from Papicha (Mounia Meddour, DZ 2020)
Badlands evenings
During the Badlands evenings, the filmmakers will illuminate their artistic and societal visions as well as explain their personal drives using their own works and excerpts from makers who inspired them. What do they dream of? Who inspires them and what would they like to see changed? How do these new talents depict the pressing issues in their own lives? Time to share personal experiences.
The filmmakers who will make their appearance in Eye will be interviewed by moderators Noa Johannes (NTR/NPO3). During the evenings, the talents show their artistic and social vision on the basis of their own work and clips from works by inspirators, and clarify personal motivations.
The new generation of fllmmakers introduce themselves
illustration © Isa Grütter
Talents
Eye presents two talents per evening; often they are makers who work with shared themes – such as representation, the search for identity and building worlds – but express them in their own way.
The talents that have been offered a stage so far are Lenina Ungari, Daniël Ernst, Rossella Nisio, Jemima de Jonge, Festus Toll, C.T.H. Fransen, Kevin Osepa, Aisha Madu, Emma Branderhorst, Vincent Tilanus, Daniël Kolf, Sam du Pon, Annelotte Coster, Bodil Matheeuwsen, Sharif Abdel Mawla, Zara Dwinger, Frieda Barnhard, Milou Gevers and Leila Sahir.
Finally, the talents will jointly present a debut film from an important filmmaker they have selected.
Mentors
Sometimes participants will also enter into conversation with someone who inspired them: a professional from the field – such as Morgan Knibbe, Peter Greenaway, Ivan Barbosa and Maarten Heijmans.
Curators
Badlands was conceptualised and compiled by three curators. Poet, artist and filmmaker Lemuël de Graav (1998) studies at the Netherlands Film Academy. Multidisciplinary artists Xiang Yu Yeung (1992) working at IFFR. Eye programmer Ronald Simons (1975) has curated programmes including Eyeshadow and Koolhoven & Simons.
still from Raw (Julia Ducournau. FR 2016)
VPRO Cinema
VPRO Cinema will pay ample attention to Badlands using, among other things, video portraits of the new filmmakers.
still from Watamula (Kevin Osepa, NL 2020)
Eye Film Player
You can see several films by the filmmakers included in Badlands on the Eye Film Player.
illustration © Isa Grütter
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